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Houses of Laplana: Murgonal, Vavassor of Mirhttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/houses-of-laplana-murgonal-vavassor-of-mir/
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Coat of arms: Per bend sable and or, a chief of the first (see the images below). The charge is a red sail.

Motto: “Always right to the horizon”.

Emblem: the emblem of this house is a boat sail. The Lord of Murgonal has the sail extended over his tower, and the wind shakes it when the house has a problem about to happen. People think that, if needed, the sail can be put in a boat and this will go fast over the water, with or without wind. Actually, and this is a secret only know by the Lord, there are two things people doesn’t know. First, the emblem is not the sail, but the metal pieces holding it; second, a boat with this pieces not only will move without wind, but it will fly over the air if needed. Centuries in the future, flying ships will be common, but on this age it was something very strange to see.

Murgonal Coat Of Arms

Colors of Murgonal Vassals

If the emblem is too powerful by the Director taste, it can have some limitations: it only works in case of great need, and only leads where the emblem personalty thinks it will be helpful.

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/houses-of-laplana-murgonal-vavassor-of-mir/feed/0roldetaulaMurgonal Coat Of ArmsColors of Murgonal VassalsGeneric system for skills and difficulty levelshttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/generic-system-for-skills-and-difficulty-levels/
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1. Novice
2. Beginner
3. Competent
4. Proficient
5. Expert

The tasks done by the characters can be classified too in five levels:

Very easy

Easy

Average

Hard

Very hard

Each level of skill and difficulty can be easily translated to other systems, although the probabilities doesn’t remain the same.

Equivalence with D20

In the D20 systems, the characters throw 1d20 adding their skill level; the task is done if the result is equal or greater than the task difficulty.

Novice: +2

Beginner: +6

Competent: +10

Proficient: +14

Expert: +18

The task difficulty lies between 5 and 25, with the following equivalence:

Very easy: 5

Easy: 10

Average: 15

Hard: 20

Very Hard: 25

Equivalence with percentile systems

In the percentile games, the characters throw a 100 sided dice (2d10). The result has to be equal or smaller than their skill level. The equivalence is the following:

Novice: 50%

Beginner: 60%

Competent: 70%

Proficient: 80%

Expert: 90%

The task difficulty is added or subtracted from the skill level:

Very easy: +40%

Easy: +20%

Average: 0

Hard: -20%

Very Hard: -40%

Equivalence with GURPS

GURPS uses 3 six-sided dice (3d6), but the mechanics are the same as in the percentile games: the character throw de dice against his own skill level, and the result has to be equal or smaller.

Novice: 10

Beginner: 12

Competent: 13

Proficient: 14

Expert: 16

The task difficulty modifies the character skill level:

Very easy: +4

Easy: +2

Average: 0

Hard: -2

Very hard: -4

Equivalence with FIVE

FIVE is a system created by myself, not published yet because I’m testing it. Is a reserve pool game: the characters throw as many dice as they have skill levels:

Novice: 1d10

Beginner: 2d10

Competent: 3d10

Proficient: 4d10

Expert: 5d10

The task difficulty goes from 2 to 10. At least one dice has to be equal or greater than the task difficulty to be successful.

Very easy: 2

Easy: 4

Average: 6

Hard: 8

Very hard: 10

Other systems

The conversion is easy to do: one has to divide the skill and difficulty level by five.

If you know other systems to be added here, leave a comment please.

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/generic-system-for-skills-and-difficulty-levels/feed/0roldetaulaHouses of Laplana: The Priory of Saint Baldrichttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/houses-of-laplana-the-priory-of-saint-baldric/
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Feudal Rank: Priory of Mir.

Lands: in the Earldom of Mir.

History: founded on YK 306.

Ethnics: varies from one Prior to another.

Name: A Baldric is “a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon, usually a sword” (definition extracted from the wikipedia).

Emblem: the emblem was a baldric (see the definition above), to wear a sword. The baldric has the property of being completely invisible to others than his wearer, including the scabbard and the sword attached to it. Even if the wearer is captured and registered, anyone will see nothing, nor the baldric, the scabbard or the sword. The baldric will be only visible when the sword is pulled off the scabbard.

This is the coat of arms of the Priory of Saint Baldric.

Coat of Arms of the Priory of Saint Baldric

And these the colors worn by his Lords, without the charge:

Colors of the Lords of Saint Baldric

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/houses-of-laplana-the-priory-of-saint-baldric/feed/0roldetaulaDraw of the Coat of Arms of the Priory of Saint BaldricDraw of the Colors of the Lords of Saint BaldricMaisandres, Capital of the Earldom of Mir: Year of the King 250https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/maisandres-capital-of-the-earldom-of-mir-year-of-the-king-250/
https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/maisandres-capital-of-the-earldom-of-mir-year-of-the-king-250/#respondTue, 17 Feb 2015 20:43:06 +0000http://tablerpg.wordpress.com/?p=171Continue reading →]]>In this post we will describe the city of Maisandres, capital of the Earldom of Mir, as it was the Year of the King 250. The original map of the city by Brian van Hunsel has been published under a Creative Commons By-NC-SA license on the DeviantArt web site.

The name of the city has been mantained (with a little variation), replacing the former name of Mir. The map has been modified too, removing the little island in the river centre, the walls and some groups of houses to represent the evolution of the city through the years. You will see this evolution in other posts.

Map

This is the map of the city, built near the river Entrepàs flowing from east to west (from right to left in the map).

City of Maisandres, Capital of Mir, YK 250

Buildings and Neighbourhoods

In the city the important buildings were the following:

Church of Saint Sicari. It was a temple of the order of the Admonoms. 12 priests lived there.

Market.

City hall. The house of the Mayor and his family, and the house too of the 7 guards of the city.

Saint Perol Monastery. It was a temple of the order of the Truthful. 7 monks lived there.

Temple Amarant. It was a temple of the order of the vitalists. 6 priests lived there.

Commerce House. Here the goods were bought and sold. Most were imported from Infradània or the Swamp, and were exported to this places too in one direction or the other.

The city was divided in neighbourhoods, established above all by jobs:

Port district: inhabited by river sailors.

Woodplain district: most nomad woodmen earn money working as guides for the caravans between Maisandres and the earldom of Infradània. In this plain they mounted their skin tents.

Market district: near the market building lived most of the craftsmen, shoppers and merchants.

Field: here lived the peasants working in the fields near the city.

Swamp district: the cocodrilians living in the city had built a zone full of water, like a little swamp. There they had built houses in the swamp style. Most of them were merchants o middlemen, living of the commerce between the city and the swamp.

North district: all king of people lived there: soldiers, servants, serfs, sailors, mercenaries and adventurers.

Barris de la ciutat de Maisandres

Population

1028 people lived in the city, with 68 craftsmen families.

Most of the people had a work related to the commerce between the city and the earldom of Infradània, to the east, and the Swamp of Entrepàs, to the west.

The river between Maisandres and Embarcador was navigable. Embarcador was the second city of the earldom, and served as a connection with the cocodrilians of the swamp. See the description of the Earldom of Mir for more information.

Fortifications

The YK 250 the city didn’t have walls yet, but they were being rebuilt from the remaining ancient walls of the city.

Roads

A road went to the west to Embarcador. It was a packed earth road, without any pavement. The distance to Embarcador, in a straight line, was 17 km, but the road made 27 km because went to north to avoid the Entrepàs gorge.

Taxes

The crafstmen payed a tax of 172d / $688 / 69 po every year. This generated an income for the city of 11.696d / $46.784 / 4.678 po invested mainly in the walls construction (the currency is given in the systems of Hârnmaster, GURPS and D20 respectively).

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/maisandres-capital-of-the-earldom-of-mir-year-of-the-king-250/feed/0roldetaulaMap of the city of Maisandres, capital of Mir, the YK 250Mapa dels barris de la ciutat de MaisandresMaisandres_Population_YK250Religions of Laplana: The Eternal Balancehttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/religions-of-laplana-the-eternal-balance/
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Believes

Cosmogony

The planet was viewed by the woodmen as a living being. They named him Torcan, the thinker. Everything imagined by Torcan became real. This way Torcan created all the things: animals, plants, men and mountains. He did it for himself, to have company through the long millenia.

The Balance

The aim of the balance was to preserve the nature as conceived by Torcan. The woodmen had the mission of preserving the balance between all the things. Failing to accomplish this mission meant to be exposed to the Torcan punishment.

The Evil

Torcan, as any other living being, had evil thoughts, nightmares… The demons and the undead were born from this kind of evil thoughts. They were enemies of the nature and Torcan himself. They didn’t belong to the balance, and had to be fought.

Eschatology

When men died, they were reabsorbed by Torcan conscience. Those who had followed the balance came back to the nature in a privileged form,like a mountain, a river, a star… Those who didn’t, came back in a less glamorous form, like a worm or a fly.

Priests

Access: the druids choose their disciples by their capabilities. The studies to became a druid were up to twenty years long.

Functions: they leaded the rituals of adoration and sacrifice, predicted the future and administered justice aiming to preserve the balance.

Lifestyle: the druids had solitary lives, and joined the community only in special occasions, typically to celebrate rituals and for the tribe important meetings.

Distinction: the sacred color for the druids was the white, and this was the color of their tunics. They wore too a great staff with singular shape. A druid could be identified by the shape of his staff.

Powers: the druids could communicate with Torcan through the material shapes of his thoughts: mountains, plants, animals… This gave to them a privileged knowledge of the nature and the future. Besides, they could prepare magic elixirs.

Rituals

Coming of age

This king of rituals were related to the skills for survival. The candidates to the coming of age were abandoned by themselves far from the tribe camp. They had to survived during some time, then find the way home.

Funeral rituals

The woodmen didn’t bury their dead, nor burn them. They built small wood altars, and let the nature consume the corpses. When only the bones remained, they were taken apart and another corpse occupied the altar.

Matrimony

The druid choose the couples that had to be married, and blessed the union. A couple could be divorced if the conditions weren’t respected of there was mistreatment.

Worship rituals

The sacrifices were common on the worship ceremonies. Normally, animals o enemies of the tribe were sacrificed. The sacrifices were offered to Torcan as a contribution to the balance. The death had to be, then, justified.

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/religions-of-laplana-the-eternal-balance/feed/0roldetaulaThe Eternal Balance Symbol: ScalesHouses of Laplana: Capcer, Vavassor of Mirhttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/houses-of-laplana-capcer-vavassor-of-mir/
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Emblem:the emblem of Capcer was a compass always pointing the direction of the house’s lands. The head of the house could use the compass to communicate with his ancestors doing simple questions, responded by pointing at one of the four cardinal points. The compass helped answering the correct questions, but always according to the house personality traits.

Coat of Arms of the House of Capcer

Their Lords and Vassals used the colors, without the charge:

Coat of Arms of the vassals of Capcer

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/houses-of-laplana-capcer-vavassor-of-mir/feed/0roldetaulaCoat of Arms of the House of CapcerCoat of Arms of the vassals of CapcerReligions of Laplana (I): Abstracthttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/religions-of-laplana-i-abstract/
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The religions of Laplana: The Lighthouse and the Fountain, the Eternal Balance, the Vitalism, the Path and the Witchcraft

The original religions

The Lighthouse and the Fountain

It was the original religion of archaic, created when they were still poor fugitives hiding in caves for protection against demons for the big night.

It was a shamanistic religion based on the belief that everything in the world is possessed by spirits. Shamans, their priests, could communicate with these spirits, which gave them great power. The purpose of religion was to explain the world and protect the men from the dangers of nature and demons.

When the Archaic Empire was founded it became the religion of the masses, while the aristocracy became vitalist. In Laplana it lived for a time with other religions, but in the 262 YK died the last lightfountist priest and the religions disappeared in Laplana.

The Vitalism

The origins of vitalism were in the religion of the Lighthouse and the Fountain, but unlike this establishes two opposite poles in the spiritual world: good and evil, in a constant struggle. It was a mainly urban religion based on the study and knowledge, which aimed to contribute to the triumph of good over evil.

Vitalism eventually became the official religion of Archaic Empire, and his priests held important positions in the civil service hierarchy.

In Laplana, the vitalist church was established as an institution independent from the authority, but they worked closely. Their rituals for solemn oaths and creating emblems helped shape Laplana feudalism.

Finally, this religion was displaced by the church of the four orders on the third century, and early sixth was declared a heresy and their members were persecuted. That meant the end of the creation of new emblems.

The Eternal Balance

This was a pantheistic religion type, which preached that all that existed was a part of God, who was called Torcan. Therefore, through introspection and observation one could get to know Torcan.

The Eternal Balance was the original religion of the Woodmen of Central Archery before reached by the archaic. Their priests were Druids. These were similar to the shaman, but instead of talking to the spirits communicated with Torcan.

The new religions

When the archaic reached Central Archery brought with them vitalist and lightfountain religions. These collided with the religion of the woodmen, the eternal balance. This meeting led to new religious movements, between the woodmen as between archaic.

Witchcraft

The mixture of pantheism of the eternal equilibrium with the archaic concepts of light and darkness and good and evil formed the witchcraft. The basics of witchcraft were a mixture of pantheistic and dualist values. That is, all was part of God, but God had a dual nature.
The priests were called warlocks and witches. They copied the techniques used by shamans, druids and vitalists, but following established recipes without understanding the basics.

Witchcraft was not a religion in itself. It was considered a superstition or a form of magic, and coexisted with other religions.

The Path

The impact of the Druids in the spirituality of the archaic generated the figure of hermits, men seeking wisdom or divine illumination alone. Some of these men managed to reach a higher state of wisdom, and became holy men. Afterwards, they were the creators of rural religious orders.

Taking the theoretical basis of lightfountain and vitalism, the path established that holy men were those who had the most pure soul, and became saints when getting a purity level such that integrate with God and served as a guide for the rest of men, marking the path to holiness. All holy men were vitalists.

The four major religious orders of Laplana were founded by holy men:

San Prius: Order of Verists or The Mirror;

Santa Minala: Order of the Pilgrims or The Stars;

San Geto: Order of Admonoms or Administrative Apostolic Church; and

Santa Collatera: Order of Agronomists or Agrostic Rural Church.

Hence the church was known as the Church of the Holy Men or, later, as the Tetrarchy.

There were other religious orders, but they were not part of church government. They were especially monastic or military orders.

Other religious cults

In addition to the major religions there were local cults, which could be more or less tolerated, but from the sixth century most were declared heresy. Some of these cults were demonic ones, originating in the big night; others were apocryphal, based on saints not recognized by the official church; and others were cults of foreign nations.

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/religions-of-laplana-i-abstract/feed/0roldetaulaThe religions of Laplana: The Lighthouse and the Fountain, the Eternal Balance, the Vitalism, the Path and the WitchcraftHouses of Laplana: Fartís, Vavassor of Mirhttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/houses-of-mir-fartis-vavassor-of-mir/
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Feudal Rank: Vavassor of Mir.

Lands: Varvassory of Fartís.

History: the house was founded the 224 YK, the same year of the earldom foundation.

Ethnics: it belongs to the archaic ethnics.

Name: Fartís, meaning: “Very fond of eating a certain food”.

Personality:

Primary: carefree.

Secondary: glutton, moody.

Coat of arms: Gyronny of 10 tenne and sable (see the images below).

Motto: “Good and abundant” (eat well and not worry about anything, according to the Catalan proverb).

Emblem: the Fartís emblem was a dish with unending food, excepte when was submerged in water to wash it. Only worked when used by his owner. In the ritual of succession, all the candidates had to eat from the dish: the non-chosen ones suffered an intoxication that could be mortal, but not frequently.

House of Fartís: “Good and Abundant”

The Lords had the same coat of arms, but without the charge:

Coat of Arms of the Lords of Fartís

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/houses-of-mir-fartis-vavassor-of-mir/feed/0roldetaulaHouse of Fartís Coat of ArmsCoat of Arms of the Lords of FartísHow to Create a Noble House for the Campaign Setting? The Rampoina Househttps://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/how-to-create-a-noble-house-for-the-campaign-setting-the-rampoina-house/
https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/how-to-create-a-noble-house-for-the-campaign-setting-the-rampoina-house/#commentsFri, 16 Jan 2015 20:56:41 +0000http://tablerpg.wordpress.com/?p=149Continue reading →]]>In this post we will show you the steps to follow to create a noble house, and at the same time we will create a new house of the Earldom of Mir.

Feudal Rank

The houses had a specific position in the feudal hierarchy. In Laplana, only Earls, Vicecounts, Comdors and Vavassors had their own house. The Lords, forming the lower layer of the nobility, belonged to a superior house and wore its colors.

The house we are creating had the rank of Earl, and was the superior of 8 Lords, 3 Vavassors and 1 Prior, but this numbers can vary depending on the year.

Lands

The noble houses were linked to a land. In the campaign of Laplana this was entirely true because the houses couldn’t change their lands or acquire new ones. If they did it, they had to change their name, heraldry and personality.

There was way in which a house could grow: improving its manor, having more vassals, o ascending in the feudal hierarchy.

In this aspect, Laplana was very different than the medieval Europe, were the political marriages aimed to increase the lands and titles of a family. In Laplana, the children of a house belonged to a house or other, but never belonged to two families at the same time.

The house we are creating was situated in the earldom of Mir.

History

To create the history of a noble house is a complex process and we will do it only if its required by the plot. As a basic data, we can give the year of its foundation.

In this case, the house was founded the Year of the King 224, the same year on which the earldom of Mir was conquered and refounded.

Ethnics

There are two main ethnic groups in Laplana: the arcaics and the sylvans. The first were descendants of the invaders of Archery coming from Archland; the seconds were descendants of the native humans of Archery.

The archaic occupied the nobility, bourgeoisie and clergy, while the sylvans were the bulk of the peasantry. Only one of every ten nobles was sylvan.

Our house is of sylvan origin, which is a rarity.

Name

There are a lot of ways to create a name. Everyone has its ways. The important aspect is to be coherent in your campaign setting.

In Laplana, the names are inspired by the catalan language. To create them, I have a microsoft access file with all the words of the catalan language, and I chose one randomly (using microsoft excel to create random numbers and then choosing the rows with these numbers).

In this link there is a text file with all the roots in catalan. There are only the roots, and not all the words, because the file size grows exponentially.

To choose the correct name the ethnic group has to be taken in account. Sylvan have names related with the nature (animals, plants, weather…), while archaic have names related with crafts, objects, or abstract concepts. When we have the name, we search the definition, because it can help us to define its personality.

Our house will have the name Rampoina: that means the parts of a plant that one has to take out for its own benefit. This definition will define at least one of the personality factors for this family.

Personality

Every house has one primary personalty factor and two secondary ones. We will use the personalty chapter of our own system, FIVE, based on the 16 personality factors, but you can you whatever you like.

In our new house, we choose the following factors:

Primary factor: practical (low imagination)

Secondary factor: forthright (low privateness)

Secondary factor: gregarious (low self confidence).

The house personality was maintained through generations thanks to the emblems ceremony. In Laplana, when the leader of the house died, the heir was chosen following a ceremony: the house emblem (an object), containing the essence of all the previous house leaders, choose a heir between al the family members with a personality aligned with the house one. In later entries we will explain this ceremony in detail.

In this case, the coat of arms is the following, described as: Per fess gules and sable, 2 garter or.

Over the coat, we added a figure related with the house’s name, a tobacco plant (taken from Wikimedia Commons.

House Rampoina: “Get to the point”

Optionally, you can create a moot for the house, a phrase defining it. In this case the motto will be: “get to the point”.

Their direct vassals (Lords) used the same colors, but without the plant.

Coat of Arms of the House Rampoina Lords

Emblem

Finally, we have to choose the house’s emblem. Is an object used by all the house leaders during its history. In the beginning, all the emblems were weapons, but this had varied with the passing of time.

In this case, the charge is a tobacco plant, so we have decided that the emblem for this house will be a smoking pipe. In important times, the leader use the pipe to smoke and this helps him (or her) to take the right decisions (those according with the house personality), “communication” with his ancestors.

The emblem is a magical object, and it can have other powers that will be described, if needed, in an adventure.

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]]>https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/how-to-create-a-noble-house-for-the-campaign-setting-the-rampoina-house/feed/4roldetaulaHouse Rampoina Coat of ArmsCoat of Arms of the House Rampoina LordsThe Earldom of Mir (II): Year of the King 250https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/the-earldom-of-mir-ii-year-of-the-king-250/
https://tablerpg.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/the-earldom-of-mir-ii-year-of-the-king-250/#commentsTue, 13 Jan 2015 20:39:11 +0000http://tablerpg.wordpress.com/?p=142Continue reading →]]>In a previous post we treated the territory of the Earldom of Mir. In this post we will write about the human geography of the earldom. That is, the towns, roads, nobility, etc.

The earldom was conquered to the tantarantans (ogres, giants and harpies) the 224 YK (Year of the King), and was developing since then. We will explain three different moments: the 250, 300 and 350 YK. After this year, the earldom didn’t grow much more.

Manors

The earldom was formed by manors, head by a Lord possibly being, too, a Vavassor or the Earl.

The year 250 YK there was in the earldom of Mir 18 Lords, of which 2 were Vavassors and 1 was the Earl. The Vavassors and the Earl had a double duty, as a Lords of their manors and as administrators of a bigger territory.

Nobility

The Rampoina Earl had to Vavassors: Fartis and Murgonal. Rampoina had 6 Lords as a direct vassals, Fartis 5 and Murgonal 4.

Houses of the Earldom of Mir the Year of the King 250

In the map, the Earl and the Vavassors have bigger shields and a central “charge” (figure). The Lords didn’t have their own shield and wore the clors of their superiors.

Mapa del Comtat de Mir – Any del Rei 250

Roads

The earldom had the following roads (for each road we give the year of construction, distance, construction cost and maintenance cost, the last two on pennies (d from Hârnmanor system), dollars ($ from GURPS system) and gold pieces (gp from D20 system):

In the map the continuous red lines are the roads, and the dotted ones are the paths.

These were roads without pavement. These roads became of bad quality with intense rains. The cost to build the pavement was very high: a pavement of 12 inches depth was worth 605.088d / $2.420.352 / 242.035 po each mile! That’s the reason there is no date for building paved roads.

You can find the complete information about roads generation in this document: Mir_Roads.xslx (excel document).

Cities

There were two main towns in the earldom: Mir and Embarcador. The first was rebuild from the ruins of the ancient city-state.

Between the two cities the Entrepas river was navigable by small ships, but it was not to the east of Mir and to the west of Embarcador. However, the navigable part of the river was enought to make this two towns importants points of commerce.

Below we will give the date for each town: population, craftsmen and taxes collected:

The city of Mir rebuilt the ancient fortifications of the city: stone walls 1200 meters long, 5 high and 2.5 depth, during 55 years (279 YK), and 16 square towers of stone, 5 meters each side and 15 high, during 26 years (305 YK). The total cost of the walls and towers was 403.965d / $1.615.860 / 161.586 gp, and the annual expenses of maintenace were 575d / $2.300 / 230 gp.

In the city of Embarcador new fortifications were built: wood walls, 1000 meters long, 3 high and 8 inches depth, built in 3 yeras (228 YK), and 12 wood square towers, 5 meters each side and 15 high, built in 5 years (233 YK). The total cost of the wall and towers was 26.027d / $104.108 / 10.411 gp, and the annual expenses of maintenance were 207d / $828 / 83 gp.

You can access to the complete information about city generation in this document: Mir_Cities.xslx (excel document).

Resources

The first years, the efforts of the Earl of Rampoina were centered on the assart of the terrrtory, aiming to create new manors, and on the building of new roads.

THe 250 YK the earldom occupied 59 square miles (152 km2), a 13% of the total territory (the maximum territory were 30% of the total, the rest was uninhabitable / unworkable).

The Earl received 80.000d / $320.000 / 32.000 gp yearly from his vassals in concept of taxes, Lords and Vavassors, and were expended on: